Senior UX Writer and Content Designer, Search

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 6 years of experience in writing, editorial, marketing, UX writing, content design, or related, as well as leading content projects.
  
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).
  

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of writing, editorial, marketing, or UX writing experience in an agency setting and interacting with executive leadership.
  
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional technology organization.
  
• Experience designing content to scale across multiple platforms.
  
• Experience developing information architecture for complex documentation sets or product suites.
  
• Experience with localization and accessibility best practices.
  

About the job

As a UX writer, you are an advocate for Google design, shaping product experiences by creating useful, meaningful text that helps users complete tasks. You help set the vision for content and drive cohesive product narratives across multiple platforms and touch points. As a stellar writer, your portfolio of work demonstrates content that simplifies and beautifies the overall user experience. You work with people in a variety of UX design-related jobs including researchers, product managers, engineers, marketing and customer operations. Collaborating with each, you strive to establish cohesive language and a unified voice across products and platforms. You regularly use empathy, logic and data to inform content choices and recommendations that include the right words and sometimes complementary data and images.

The UX team works on identity and personalization on Google Search. The team's mission is to empower people with the ability to express and see themselves in Search on their terms while giving them accessible ways to exert agency and shape their experience over time. The team does this by developing products and features that enable people to express and shape interests they share with Google, save, curate and recall content they discover as a result of that, and exert control over how their personal information shows up in Google Search.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $134,000-$198,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Understand and advocate for all UX functions as essential to the product lifecycle.
  
• Drive the development of innovative UX writing and content design solutions to complex user, product, and business problems.
  
• Build alignment by collaborating with product managers, team members, and other cross-functional stakeholders (e.g., marketing, legal, engineering) to develop a product narrative, outlook, or principles.
  
• Lead the establishment and improvement of UX writing and content design processes, systems, frameworks or patterns across multiple teams or products.
  
• Influence the development of priorities across projects to balance efforts in alignment with larger project goals.